Power News

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Fired Heater in Russia

Foster Wheeler awarded contract by CJSC Antipinsky Refinery for engineering and material supply of new fired heater and air preheating system for the Antipinsky Refinery, Tyumen Region, Russia.08/03/2012 More »

Jacobs Awarded Contract for University of Minnesota Combined Heat and Power Plant

Jacobs Engineering awarded contract to provide design services for the decommissioning, historic preservation and construction of the Old Main Utility Building Power Plant at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (officially known as the Combined Heat and Power Plant project).21/02/2012 More »

Shaw Group awarded contract to provide the technology license and process design package for the revamp of a residue fluid catalytic cracking unit for Star Petroleum Refining Company in Map Ta Phut, Thailand.06/02/2012 More »

JGC Corporation awarded contract for project to renovate cooling water facilities at a thermal power plant in Nassiriyah in southern Iraq. This marks the first post-Iraq War lump-sum contract for engineering, procurement, and construction services awarded to a Japanese company.01/02/2012 More »

Foster Wheeler Wins PMC Contract for the 2Co Power Don Valley Power Project

Foster Wheeler's Global Engineering and Construction Group awarded project management consultancy contract by 2Co Power (Yorkshire) Limited for the Don Valley Power Project in Stainforth, Yorkshire, UK.01/02/2012 More »

ABB to acquire Thomas & Betts for $3.9 billion

ABB and Thomas & Betts Corporation, a North American leader in low voltage products, announce that both companies' boards of directors agree to a transaction in which ABB will acquire Thomas & Betts for $72 per share in cash or approximately $3.9 billion.30/01/2012 More »

Ofgem Consults on Upgrade of Scotland's High Voltage Network

Ofgem consults on proposals which include £2.9bn of investment with up to a further £4.7bn available over the course of the price control period (April 1 2013 - 2021). Investment is part of Ofgem's decision for SP Transmission Ltd and Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission Ltd to be the first companies fast-tracked under the new RIIO price control framework.23/01/2012 More »

Foster Wheeler subsidiary of its Global Power Group awarded contract by Yuen Foong Yu Paper Mfg. (Yangzhou) Co., Ltd. for design and supply of one circulating fluidized-bed steam generator for captive use at its industrial paper complex in Yangzhou Jiangsu Province.18/01/2012 More »

AMEC JV Awarded Five-year National Grid Contract Extension

Joint venture of AMEC, Babcock Networks Ltd and Mott MacDonald Group awarded five-year extension by National Grid to its existing five-year Electricity Alliance West contract to upgrade overhead power lines and underground cables.11/01/2012 More »

Foster Wheeler Completes Purchase of Scrubber Company

Foster Wheeler subsidiary completes purchase of Graf-Wulff GmbH, a German company that designs, manufactures and installs circulating dry ash flue gas scrubbing technology for all types of boilers in the power and industrial sectors.05/01/2012 More »

Foster Wheeler subsidiary awarded contract by Hyundai Engineering and Construction for the design and supply of 4 x 250 MWe circulating fluidized-bed steam generators for the Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Plant for Vietnam Electricity, the owner and developer of the project.03/01/2012 More »

Foster Wheeler's Global Power Group has been given limited notice to proceed by GS Engineering and Construction for the design of a circulating fluidized-bed steam generator for the Green Energy Centre (Build, Transfer, Operate) Project of Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea, the owner and developer of the project.03/01/2012 More »